Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D

How excellent and how many? 5?

I know a Chinese language teacher that says people pick up Chinese very easy, but he speaks several languages and could not learn Polish.

There are a lot of Europeans in Poland now as the borders have opened up and Polish can be spoken among British teachers who originally went to Poland years ago as teachers of English

I dont know if I agree with that!

I agree with Cardno

I learnt polish language within 3 months normal conversiation.

Can anyone do it?

I certainly don't know more than 2000 Polish words, I'd be surprised if I know 1000. My grammar understanding is so-so as well. But I can hold a basic conversation in Polish and make myself understood. My main problem is understanding the other person. Despite having been leaning for a few years, I still sometimes have to say jeszcze raz or proszę mówić powoli if they speak too quickly or use a word I don't know. And even if they only use words I know, sometimes it takes a few seconds to put those words in context and understand the full sentence.

In short, memorising words and grammar rules is only the start. If that was all that's involved in learning a language it would be possible to 'learn' virtually any language in a month with enough material. The difficult part is being able to think in that language and usie it as a reliable communication medium.

Can anyone do it?

wow. Thanks man. Hate to ask for more but can anyone translate those? I think it will really help with my learning process.

Dwojgu kolegom zachciało się pogawędki. Jednemu się przypomniało, że jak jechał kiedyś z dwojgiem rodziców i dziadkami. Dwójka dziadków opowiadała że. W szkole miała same dwójki. Bo zamiast się uczyć oglądali Dwójkę (tvp2 :P). I każdy z nich lądował z dwójką na koniec semestru. Nie szło im za dobrze w dwójce (II LO :P), więc przenieśli się do trójki. Przed odejściem walnęli sprejem na ścianie napis „żegnaj dwójko”

“twos” (I think this refers to grading/marks, not sure).

It didn't go well for them in the 2nd (grade/form/year - not sure which is the most appropriate usage here), so they were moved to the 3rd (as above)Before leaving, they sprayed the wall with the message “Bye, 2nd Grade”

Wrong, in this context it means high school - in cities bigger than about 25 thousands inhabitants you usually have more than one liceum (plus a few technikum and, currently less popular, professional mid-grade school, without matura (Liceum Ogólnokształcące no. 2 and no. 3, although in Polish we use Romanian numbers for high schools so it Liceum Ogólnokształcące II, Liceum Ogólnokształcące III etc.)

If you go to www.usmilitary.about.com and search for "dlab" and "language categories" it should bring up a page for the DLAB and what scores you need for the different categories of languages if you want to read further on it. Here is the table they have listed:

85 for a Category I language (Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish)
90 for a Category II language (German)
95 for a Category III language (Belorussian, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian/Croatian, Slovak, Tagalog [Filipino], Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese)
100 for a Category IV language (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)

They've since revised the listing and added a Cat 5 (and they've lengthened the training, as well) for languages like Chinese and Korean. I think, as far as I know, Arabic may still be a 4. I'm at DLI right now, so if you have any more questions, I could probably find out the correct info, moreso than a website would.

Polishgirl, Polish is NO harder for us Anglos than English is for you Poles. It's often merely the perceived impression of degree in difficulty. After all, for most people, perception still is reality-:)